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19TH CENTURY
Details
A pair of ormolu-mounted models of white-glazed pigeons
19th Century
Each modelled in mirror image with the heads turned inwards, the feathers modelled naturalistically, the eyes picked out in black, set in an elaborate gilt-bronze Louis XV-style mount with grasses rising from a rockwork base supported on scrolling leaves, one beak repaired
22.5 cm. high (2)
19th Century
Each modelled in mirror image with the heads turned inwards, the feathers modelled naturalistically, the eyes picked out in black, set in an elaborate gilt-bronze Louis XV-style mount with grasses rising from a rockwork base supported on scrolling leaves, one beak repaired
22.5 cm. high (2)
Provenance
Mak van Waay B.V., Amsterdam, sale 7-11-1978 lot 645.
Special notice
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